Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secretive for so patriotic a body. Hoping to catch anti-HUAC speakers unprepared, the House leadership rushed a $300,000 authorization for the investigating group to the floor just one hour after it had been approved by the Committee on House Administration. The measure passed, but not until Representatves Burton (D-Calif.), Ryan (D-N.Y.), and Farbstein (D-N.Y.) had chided it liberally...
INSIDE THE MOVIE KINGDOM (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). A look at today's top screen stars at work and at play, in a series of vignettes filmed on location. Among them: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Richard Burton, Paul Newman and Claudia Cardinale...
...lithe, electric homunculus, he is Diskville's No. 1 dancing master, a hierophant of the subtle shades of difference between the Chicken and the Bird, the Surf and the Fish and the Swim, who has welcomed many a Big Name (Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, Hoofer Ray Bolger, Sybil Burton) to his unpretentious walk-up studio in Manhattan and makes about 30 trips a year to cities around the country to show dancing teachers how it's done...
...which English history wars with an impudent Gallic wit. Director Peter Glenville has flung the drama onto the screen like a vast Bayeux tapestry, held fast with the lancet-sharp performances of Peter O'Toole as Henry II, England's first Plantagenet ruler, and of Richard Burton as the 12th century martyr Thomas Becket. Henry loved Becket, raised him to eminence as Archbishop of Canterbury, then lost his onetime friend in a struggle between church and state that ended with Becket's murder...
Together O'Toole and Burton galvanize the early scenes, making their acting duo an acting duel as they race through court and countryside flushing wild boars and wenches. Henry appropriates a peasant's daughter he finds trembling in a hut. "Shall we take her with us, or shall we have her sent?" he quips, in an anachronism that leaps centuries, but does not vitiate the pungent give-and-take of character...